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In the country, holidaymakers were a rarity. The railways could take you almost anywhere, but it was only the middle classes who went. So there were no crowds, and many of our pictures show tourist hotspots before they were hot, before there was any such thing as a car park. The text provides local knowledge and background to the photographs and is an enjoyable read in itself, but the real pleasure is in seeing Brighton, Margate, Scarborough, Broadstairs, Clovelly, Ilfracombe, Minehead, before it all happened. See Exmoor, the White Peak, Somerset, when the loudest noise was the click of the ca

A true account of a young family's emigration to Australia in 1963 courtesy of the £10.00 assisted passage scheme, and the devastating effect it had once reality replaced the fantasies otherwise presented by Australia House. Unable to finance an immediate return due to the two years domicile penalty clause, the alternative would result in a most traumatic journey of four years; a disastrous encounter with the Nullabor Plain, a separation whilst I struggled for eight months and three days to secure five return tickets, amongst the wilderness of the North West Cape, where earnings were completel